List of Publications

Please note: The following list does not include all publications in German language. For a comprehensive listing of such publications, please refer to the German list (Schriftenverzeichnis) which also provides additional links to websites of publishing houses, summaries and the full text of publications.

The United Nations Charter as the Constitution of the International Community. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. (Legal Aspects of International Organization, vol. 51). ISBN 978 90 04 17510 5.
[For reviews, see Jan Klabbers, 6 International Organizations Law Review 667-73 (2009); Karl Zemanek, 14 Austrian Review of International and European Law 651-53 (2009).]

UN Reform and Collective Security: The Report of the UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change of December 2004 and the Recommendations of the UN Secretary-General of March 2005. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, April 2005 (Global Issue Papers no. 17, English version).

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters eds.). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-959975-2.
Paperback-Ausgabe 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-872522-0.
Winner of the 2014 “Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law 2014” of the American Society of International Law. –For reviews (in alphabetical order), see: Markus P. Beham, Austrian Review of International and European Law 18 (2016), pp. 392-95; Jane Burbank, Law and History Review, February 2015, pp. 263-66; Jacob Katz Cogan, American Journal of International Law 108 (2014), pp. 371-76; Carlo Focarelli, Italian Yearbook of International Law 23 (2014), pp. 547-50; Amin George Forji, Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international 16 (2014), pp. 90-95; Will Hanley, European Journal of International Law 25 (2014), pp. 321-27; Ralph Janik, Austrian Review of International and European Law 17 (2012), pp. 477-79; Alexandra Kemmerer, European Journal of International Law 25 (2014), pp. 287-95; Stefan B. Kirmse, European Journal of International Law 25 (2014), pp. 307-11; Anne-Charlotte Martineau, European Journal of International Law 25 (2014), pp. 329-36; Rose Parfitt, European Journal of International Law 25 (2014), pp. 297-306; Kim Christian Priemel, H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews, August 2015; Nahed Samour, European Journal of International Law, Bd. 25 (2014), S. 313-319; Hendrik Simon, sehepunkte 15 (2015), no. 4 (April 15, 2015); Heinhard Steiger, Der Staat 53 (2014), pp. 121-37; Karl-Heinz Ziegler, German Yearbook of International Law 56 (2013), pp. 613-16.

Triepel in Luxemburg. [The dualist construction of the relationship between EU law and international law in the "Kadi" jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice: A problem of the self-perception of the European Union.] 63 Die Öffentliche Verwaltung (DÖV) 333-41 (2010).

Targeted Sanctions Imposed by the UN Security Council and Due Process Rights: A Study Commissioned by the UN Office of Legal Affairs and Follow-up Action by the United Nations. 3 International Organizations Law Review 437-85 (2006).

Compensation for Forced Labour in World War II: The German Compensation Law of 2 August 2000. 3 Journal of International Criminal Justice 243-52 (2005).

The Better Peoples of the United Nations? Europe's Practice and the United Nations. 15 European Journal of International Law 857-84 (2004).

Die Gegenwartskrise des völkerrechtlichen Gewaltverbotes vor dem Hintergrund der geschichtlichen Entwicklung. [The Contemporary Crisis of the Prohibition of the Use of Force in International Law Against the Background of European History since the 19th Century.] 31 Europäische Grundrechte-Zeitschrift (EuGRZ) 241-56 (2004).

All Illusions Shattered? Looking Back on a Decade of Failed Attempts to Reform the UN Security Council. 7 Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 138-218 (2003).

Auswärtige Hoheitsrechte der deutschen Territorien und Einzelstaaten vor der Reichsgründung. Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte moderner bundesstaatlicher Kompetenzverteilung. [Foreign Relations Powers of the German Territories and States before the Creation of the German Empire in 1871: A Contribution to the History of the Distribution of Competencies in Modern Federal States.] 42 Der Staat 409-36 (2003).

Die Verfassungswidrigkeit eines allgemeinen Ausschlusses einer Personengruppe vom Schutz vor Diskriminierung. Zur Entscheidung des US Supreme Court in Sachen Romer v. Evans. [The Unconstitutionality of a General Exclusion of a Group from the Protection against Discrimination: The Case of Romer v. Evans.] 24 Europäische Grundrechte-Zeitschrift (EuGRZ) 608-15 (1997) (with a translation of the decision into German at 624-30).

Hans Kelsen (1881-1973). In: The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law 1167-72 (Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters eds., Oxford University Press, 2012).

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985). In: The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law 1173-78 (Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters eds., Oxford University Press, 2012).

Introduction: Towards a Global History of International Law (together with Anne Peters). In: The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law 1-24 (Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters eds., Oxford University Press, 2012).

The Security Council: Progress is Possible but Unlikely. In: Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law 52-60 (Antonio Cassese ed., Oxford University Press, 2012).

The Role for Human Rights in the Decision-Making Process of the Security Council. In: Securing Human Rights? Achievements and Challenges of the UN Security Council 74-97 (Bardo Fassbender ed., Oxford University Press, 2011).

Architectural Clarity or Creative Ambiguity? The Place of the Human Rights Council in the Institutional Structure of the United Nations. In: From Bilateralism to Community Interest: Essays in Honour of Judge Bruno Simma 443-61 (Ulrich Fastenrath et al. eds., Oxford University Press, 2011).

Sources of human rights obligations binding the UN Security Council. In Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy 71-92 (Pieter H.F. Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer and Michael Waibel eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Der Gesetzesvorbehalt in europäischen und internationalen Menschenrechtsverträgen. [Clauses in European and international human rights treaties according to which limitations of rights and freedoms must be "determined by law".] In: Gewaltenteilung und Menschenrechte 83-137 (Eckard Klein ed., Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2d revised ed., 2010).

Rediscovering a Forgotten Constitution: Notes on the Place of the UN Charter in the International Legal Order. In: Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance 133-47 (Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Joel P. Trachtman eds., Cambridge University Press, 2009).

The UN Charter as Framework Constitution of the International Community. In: Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, vol. 1 (2006), 377-82 (Hélène Ruiz-Fabri et al. eds., Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008).

'We the Peoples of the United Nations': Constituent Power and Constitutional Form in International Law. In: The Paradox of Constitutionalism: Constituent Power and Constitutional Form 269-90 (Martin Loughlin and Neil Walker eds., Oxford University Press, 2007, 2nd edn. 2008).

Comments on Chapters 1 and 2 (Frédéric Mégret, Why would States want to join the ICC?, and Gerben Kor, Sovereignty in the dock). In: Complementary Views on Complementarity. Proceedings of the International Roundtable on the Complementary Nature of the International Criminal Court, Amsterdam, 25/26 June 2004, at 73-77 (Jann K. Kleffner and Gerben Kor eds., The Hague, 2006).

The Meaning of International Constitutional Law. In: Towards World Constitutionalism: Issues in the Legal Ordering of the World Community 837-51 (Ronald St. J. Macdonald and Douglas M. Johnston eds., Leiden / Boston, 2005).

The European Union in the United Nations and the Issue of UN Reform. In: Reforming the United Nations for Peace and Security: Proceedings of a Workshop to Analyze the Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change 71-88 (Yale Center for the Study of Globalization ed., New Haven, Connecticut, 2005).

The UN Security Council and International Terrorism. In: Enforcing International Law Norms Against Terrorism 83-102 (Andrea Bianchi ed., Oxford, 2004).

Walther Schücking: Champion of the League of Nations Idea in Pre-World War I-Germany. (Presentation in the Panel "The Academic as Cosmopolite: Legal Visions of International Governance in the 20th Century", chaired by Martti Koskenniemi.) Summary of remarks in: The American Society of International Law -- Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting 1999, 329-30.

Rehabilitation and Compensation of Victims of Human Rights Violations Suffered in East Germany (1945-1990). In: State Responsibility and the Individual: Reparation in Instances of Grave Violations of Human Rights 251-79 (Albrecht Randelzhofer and Christian Tomuschat eds., 1999).

Articles 9, 10, 11, 12, 54 and 55 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. In: The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary. Second Edition 292-317, 318-29, 330-32, 333-37, 1355-59, 1360-65 (Andreas Zimmermann et al. eds., Oxford University Press, 2012).

German Federal Constitutional Court, 28 January 1998: Prince of Liechtenstein v. Federal Supreme Court (confiscation of property in Czechoslovakia in 1945 and exclusion of the jurisdiction of German courts). 93 American Journal International Law 215-19 (1999). Extended German version in 52 Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1445-48 (1999).

German Federal Constitutional Court, 10 June 1997: Diplomatic immunity and state succession. 92 American Journal of International Law 74-78 (1998). German version in 18 Neue Zeitschrift für Strafrecht 144-46 (1998).

German Federal Constitutional Court, 14 May 1996: Three decisions concerning the right to political asylum in German law. 91 American Journal of International Law 355-60 (1997).

Fontes Historiae Iuris Gentium: Sources Relating to the History of the Law of Nations. Edited by Wilhelm G. Grewe in cooperation with the Institute of International Law at the Free University of Berlin. Vols. I (1995), II (1988) and III (1992). 20 Yale Journal of International Law 458-59 (1995).

N.D. White, Keeping the Peace: The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security (1993). 19 Yale Journal of International Law 544-45 (1994).